Patrick's boyfriend, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., owns the Stenhouse Jr. Racing team and fields dirt cars. And team owner Tony Stewart also is a dirt track aficionado -- he races on them and owns Eldora Speedway.

Joe Crowley, who is part of Patrick's public relations team, said Patrick had a prescheduled meeting with NASCAR medical Friday to follow up on some paperwork from her Phoenix crash.

Since NASCAR had heard of the rock incident, they gave her a minor checkup and asked if she was OK.

As for Phoenix, where Patrick blew a tire, sending her car hard into the wall, the Sprint Cup Series rookie said she experienced a sore neck for the first time after a crash.

Patrick said she did not believe she had a concussion — "I really felt fine," she said — and was cleared by the medical staff.

"I told them, I said, 'I had a headache on Sunday night and on Monday my neck was sore,' " and they said, 'Well, it sounds like it could have been worse and we're glad you're OK,' " she said.

Crew members work on the #10 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet driven by Danica Patrick after he car suffered damage during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.
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